Having followed the Israeli Messianic ministries closely for two and half decades, I have noticed something about Christian ministers, even some of the very best ministries who help people get free of the things that are strongholds. Freedom from the things of the past that have held us back, can keep us after coming to faith in sorrows, pain and lack. Jesus came to set the captives free. Absolutely. That is not a good explanation for how why Israeli Messianic believers suffer lack of adequate resources, or suffer along with their unsaved countrymen in the distresses of living as an Israeli.

Track with me as I lay down the breadcrumbs God has left for us in the Bible about these things.

My starting place is with Hannah being misjudged by the priest Eli when she was praying within herself at the altar: “In her bitter distress, Hannah prayed to the LORD and wept with many tears.” Then she made a vow to God that if He gave her a son, she would dedicate him to God for all his life.

Now the priest Eli is watching her crying her eyes out at the altar, wordlessly, and concluded she was drunk. He rebuked Hannah. It is easy to make snap judgments about people who are suffering in pain and sorrow. I think we have probably all done it at some point in our lives. But there is a greater spiritual principle being shown here, that I don’t want anyone to miss.

When Eli recognized his misjudgment of the cause of Hannah’s presence at the altar of God, he spoke healing words to her and over her: “Go in peace,” Eli replied, “and may the God of Israel grant the petition you have asked of Him.”

If you are a Christian, this is an account that is for you in relation to how you assess the Israeli body of Messiah.

One of my good friends in Israel, Miriam Abramov, posted a similar graphic that prompted me to write this. I believe that I have related to the Israelis Messianic ministries so well because my life has been somewhat in parallel to the things they as a people have endured. That is one reason that as I returned to faith I was so captivated by the book of Isaiah. I knew the prophet was speaking to Israel as God was commenting on what their ‘life experience’ had been and would be – with the promises always included. God always said that in the end of it all, there was good for them from Him and He would reward them double for all they had been through.

You know, Job wasn’t wrong in so many of his arguments, he had walked uprightly before God and was undeserving of all the hell that fell on him instigated by the enemy. Just because God tells Job off at the end does not mean in any sense that Job was deserving of the evils that befell him, including friends piling on speculations about what he must have done to deserve such punishment from God. It was never from God.

The biggest problem I see with Church prophecy is not knowing what God’s aim is in the last days. If any prophet has not grasped God’s purposes for Israel as expressed throughout the whole Bible, then that prophet cannot accurately interpret the words they receive from the Holy Spirit. If that prophet cannot read the Word of God and see the ongoing love of God for His people Israel, that prophet is a detrimental influence in the season we are living. We must humble themselves or be humbled as God demonstrates His great love toward Israel in the days ahead. The world may attack Israel, but God is the one preserving her.

Years ago Asher Intrater spoke at an Israel Mandate Conference around 2005 or so that if a prophet does not know what the target is, then the trajectory of their arrows are going to miss the target face entirely. That is why we see prophetic words like arrows flying wildly in every which direction except in the direction of God’s target for us.

Personally, that is what I see right now as I listen to most Christian prophets because they have no sense of what God is orchestrating among us in the last days. His priority or target is unifying the whole of His spiritual family into oneness. Only this oneness between Christians and Messianic Jews, will facilitate “all Israel shall be saved” and the final great harvest so many Christians are expectant of.

THERE IS A BIBLICAL PROPHETIC PRINCIPLE HERE THAT MOST CHRISTIANS DO NOT RECOGNIZE: In the final days before the return of Jesus to the earth, watch Israel because what the world does to Israel, the nations are going to do to their Christians within them.

It is because in the end, we Jews and Christians who embrace each other as joined in the family of God by our faith in Israel’s Messiah, are all going to be persecuted in the same way.

We’re in this thing together just as God wants us to be. Chosen People all of us who embrace “one new man” by faith in God’s Son. This birthing experience is bringing forth Zion.

July 14 2026: For several months now during my ‘writing week’ between the bi-weekly compiling of the Arrows Summary of Prayer Requests and Activities of the Israel Believers Ministries, God has had me taking a fresh look at the Genesis accounts of the beginning formation of His family on earth.

The reason is that these things have bearing on how, at the end, when God accomplishes the joining of His whole family together as one — as expressed in Ephesians 2:15 as the unity of “one new man” in the faith of His Son — there are things in Genesis we need to reconsider. God is wrapping up the plan for bringing His whole family together on earth as one.

One like Jesus said, “the Father and I are One” in John 10:30. In John 17:20-21 Yeshua tells us that in God’s completed plan we will be brought into the same state of unity: “I am not asking on behalf of them alone (the Jewish believers), but also on behalf of those who will believe in Me (the Christian believers) through their (Jewish believers) message, that all of them may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I am in You. May they also be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.”

Now at the beginning of the end of these things, God is directing us back to “In the beginning” so we might now see the things we missed, misconstrued, or otherwise did not take into proper account of what God is doing at “the end.” Genesis is the seedbed of all God’s plans.

God is wrapping up His thousands-of-years plan to form a FAMILY from within mankind. In this eternal family will be both the family line from the Genesis Patriarchs and Matriarchs and in our day, the Christians who recognize and embrace what God has been creating among us and for us.

God is the judge of all matters and all individuals that have ever lived or ever will live. He makes His choices, and what we think about that is not the issue. Some believe God wrote Israel and the Jews off long ago. The real shocker for them is going to be discovering that “good Christians” today are going to find themselves written off.

If we cannot come to grips with God’s right to choose whom He chooses, sadly we will not make the cut for God’s eternal family. He has made His choice plain in His Word. To remain blind to how He has stated what He is doing will leave many saying, “Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name? And in Your name have cast out devils? And in Your name done many wonderful works?”

In the days ahead we will see that those Christians who refuse to accept God’s whole family — including the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob/Israel — are going to be proven to be “workers of iniquity.” It is impossible to be a faithful servant of Jesus and refuse to see God’s people Israel. This is not a dual covenant, but the revelation of Israel’s Messiah to the Jews is already happening.

I must say this over and over: It is not enough to just write an article about how the Patriarch Jacob has gotten a worse reputation than he deserved.

This is a special guest column by native Israeli Guy Cohen. It was first published on this site June 23, 2026. Due to the hiccups of learning a new blog it and everything after it was deleted. This is returning the excellent article to the site.

Guy Cohen writes: As a Messianic Jewish congregational leader, I often engage in conversations with fellow believers and Christian leaders concerning Israel, the Jewish people, and God’s unfolding plan in history. While some of these discussions are encouraging and fruitful, others leave me deeply troubled, particularly when I encounter teachings that suggest God has rejected Israel or that the Church has replaced Israel in His covenant purposes.

It is important for me to make one thing clear from the outset: my disagreement is not with Arabs living in Judea and Samaria or anywhere else, nor does it stem from ethnic or national considerations. I believe that every human being is created in the image of God and is worthy of dignity, love, and fair treatment. Jews and Arabs alike are in need of God’s grace, and none of us stands before Him on the basis of our own righteousness.

My disagreement is theological. It concerns the question of whether God remains faithful to the covenants He made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and whether the promises given to Israel remain in effect. According to my understanding of the Scriptures, the answer is yes.

There are times, especially true for leaders, when we have to make really hard choices that involve a choice to do what is right rather than a choice that by human reasoning is more beneficial to us personally, or the safer choice to make.

Trump Whisperer Dick Morris on X said that bringing gas prices back down would destroy Democrats in the mid-terms. Is that what turned Trump 180 degrees from backing Israel to backing the impossible deal made with Islamist terrorists?

Could be. Trump does look down the road to what will allow him to make the most of his power. I don’t have a problem with that maneuvering per se, but in Israel’s case, you better go with what God wants, not what the political analysts say.

When there are tough choices to be made, what looks like the “safe” move may actually be the most dangerous of all. If your choice puts you on the wrong side of God’s people, He isn’t going to take that passively. You may not believe God is that involved when you deal treacherously with His people.

As Ecclesiastes 8:11 says, “Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.”

For a long time the world has gotten away with harsh treatment of the Jews, and even almost 8 decades within the restored State of Israel. Let those who think it is the safe move to disregard Israel’s rights and welfare, for our own personal expedience, be warned. The time to mess with Israel is past. The evil you do against what God is doing in and with Israel will come back on you swiftly now.

We don’t like to think that the good Americans could be so shallow as to throw Israel under the terrorism bus in trade of lower prices at the gas tank, but they are. Nevertheless, that is not the safe choice for President Trump to make. He was put into the White House to restore good to the American people. He cannot do that if he sells our Israel

He should tremble at the thought of what God thinks about his Iran deal.

I believe this is what turned Trump’s stand on Iran: “Ivanka Trump, an Alleged Iran-Linked Assassination Plot, & Broader Violence” Military News on May 26th

It must have been all the stress on him and his family with assassination attempts. Somehow, someone – maybe it was Jared after the plot to kill Ivanka – convinced him it would be okay to remove the threat with a peace plan we all know will bring no peace.

I don’t think Jared understands the Islamist mind, like most liberal American Jews or Westerners in general. To think “everyone has a price” is natural to Witkoff and Kushner. It is not true of Islamists.

JD Vance has a different mindset operating, that is of a smug conservative with anti-Israeli prejudices like Tucker Carlson’s. He deserves all the hell he is getting right now for that.

The President has a better heart for goodness than he is showing in allowing what he has allowed in the MOU. I believe Trump caved due to the threat to his own daughter combined with the continual stress of battering by haters and assassination attempts on his own life.

For months he has had a grim countenance that tells me he has come to the conclusion that it has taken too much from him, the wonderful commitment he made to restore America.

This is why he is digging in his heels because so many of us – those who have always supported him – are now recoiling in anger from the evil decision made to give Israel over to the terrorist jackals of hell.

I encourage everyone to pray FOR Trump to regain clarity and steadfastness in doing the right thing. He can end this. He can stop it dead before disaster.

Let’s pray that God will move Trump’s heart to do the right thing, not this evil plan.